Prior to the Java 7 Update 65 (7u65) and Java 8 Update 11 (8u11) releases, to disable sponsor offers at the time of installation, the user could de-select the option during installation or can pass SPONSORS=0 as a commandline option. Starting with the 7u65 and 8u11 releases, a new Java Control Panel (JCP) option to disable sponsors is available. To use this option, go to the JCP Advanced tab, and check or uncheck Suppress sponsor offers when updating Java. This option is applicable to 32- and 64-bit Windows operating systems and starting with Java 8 Update 40, available on Mac OS X systems.

Find the Java Control Panel

For Java versions starting with 8u11 and 7u65, disable offers using the simpler method described in Option 1.

If you wish to install Java without being presented any third party sponsor offers, you can install Java using a specific Command Prompt method with a flag. By installing Java with this Command Prompt, the sponsor offerings are disabled for the current and future releases of Java.

Note: This Command Prompt method will not uninstall or remove the sponsors that have already installed but will prevent any future sponsor offerings. This procedure should be applied to:

Applying the procedure to Java offline installers, for Microsoft Windows, to Java online installers for Windows released prior to 7u55 will not disable sponsor offers. The Mac command prompt procedure applies to the 8u40 release.

Mac OS X (8u40 release)

Download the Mac installer bundle, this will be a DMG archive

Mount the archive by double-clicking

Open a terminal window and locate the mounted archive

Launch the installer using the open command to pass the SPONSORS=0 argument

open <path to the downloaded and mounted installer .app> --args SPONSORS=0